Lu Ming

Chapter 112
No matter how complicated Yang Er's mental journey was, the 17-year-old Hangzhou thief with a purple-red birthmark on his face was finally ferried to the other side of the Taijiang River later that day and settled down in the Chikan New District.

On the banks of the beautiful Taijiang River, there are neat rows of houses on stilts in neat grids. In each room, there are neat beds and long tables. The thick bed frames are covered with white stubble wood. fresh taste.

The spacious and bright house on stilts is far better than the dark and cramped Datong shop in Moyunguan. The bright sea view, the vast world, and the fierce guards are nowhere to be seen at this time. One moment calms down a lot.

As usual, there will be a "joint meal" in the cafeteria that day: the main course of stewed dried venison and pork, and the vegetarian dishes made of bamboo shoots, seaweed and kelp. , hooked.Of course, after today, they will bid farewell to the enemy of blood vessels and liver: red meat, and live a healthy life of eating seafood every meal.

After the meal, the laborers who had already mastered many routines quickly elected the head of the house, and then everyone lined up and happily received personal items from the warehouse: thick bamboo cups, earthen cloth suits, wooden basins, grass mat and thin quilt.

Everyone quickly recognized that the homespun suits and thin quilts were produced by small workshops in Moyun Temple. The so-called self-made, nothing more.

It is worth mentioning the straw mat: the red, yellow and green straw mat is obviously taken from the wild grasses with red roots and dark green upper parts by the beach. This kind of grass has high salt content. It is easy to get prickly heat and is a good straw mat material.What makes the laborers sigh is: these mats are finely woven, crisp and firm, smooth and fragrant, and the most expensive salty grass mats in Yinxian County in Hangzhou are no more than this.

With the generation of electricity in the kiln base, simple agricultural equipment such as straw mat machines and bamboo screen machines have also begun to be installed.Machinery is machinery. In a very short period of time, the bamboo and grass products produced by Dayuan can meet their own needs. Moreover, these products are well-made, uniform in quality, and low in cost. It will not take long for them to be sold back to Jiangnan and become export products.

The emergence of electricity has made another previous bottleneck - the difficulty of woodworking mortise and tenon joints, a thing of the past.The hand saw can easily cut various concave and convex shapes on the column head within 1 minute, and the efficiency has been increased by more than 10 times.

The checkerboard grid in the Chikan New Area is currently being filled by "big bungalows" at an astounding speed, and this speed will accelerate with the arrival of a new batch of laborers.

Yang Er naturally didn't know that his great career of sanding sandals had been replaced by a certain machine, and the thief was scurrying around the room in the school district assigned to him, familiar with the terrain.

The first boarding primary school of the crossing forces has been under construction for a long time, and its location is next to the chessboard where Yang Er is. The design of the primary school in the shape of "Hui" has collective dormitories and other functional buildings in the outer circle, classrooms in the inner circle, and a square in the middle.

At present, several wooden structures have been completed in the elementary school, and these houses can already guarantee the minimum daily teaching and living needs.In the plan, the rest of the primary school's buildings will all be solid brick-concrete structures, and the building specifications will be the same as the Chikan Castle, which has not yet started construction, to prevent damage to the students during the typhoon season.

The first batch of 95 red bricks and the first batch of earth cement produced by the kiln in the kiln area were all used to build walls for the primary school. After Yang Er moved into the school district room, he could see the beautiful wall through the bamboo window at any time. Daming would be considered as a red brick wall of overreach.

Yang Er doesn't understand. He only knows that the red brick wall is only used by wealthy people, so the half-person-high red brick wall, which is under construction across a dirt road, will be enjoyed by barbarians in the future. A big family in the state.

The new people had a pleasant first day, and the second day was actually quite pleasant: everyone got up early in the morning, took the newly issued work clothes, lined up and walked a few miles to the kiln area, and then went to the new large kiln area. In the bathroom, the newlyweds took a collective bath.

The decoration of the bathhouse is very high-end: the main body is built of logs, the floor is made of basalt square bricks, and the floor tiles are paved with pumice stones full of fine holes-light volcanic stones, which have a massage effect.The industrial party owns a small ebony-wood bathhouse next door, with a pumice massage pool in it, and you can often hear the singing of the kiln heads during the dry steaming after the shift.

A special atmospheric boiler is responsible for providing drinking water and bathing water for all workers in the kiln area.The newcomers took a hot bath in the bathhouse today, and the hot water flowing out of the silver iron pipe above their heads made the newcomers who are used to cold spring baths in Moyun Temple sigh the novelty .

The Mingren team leader with a loudspeaker proudly announced after everyone changed into new clothes: From now on, people who get off work every day can take a bath here for free. Popular science for everyone: Even in the big families in Hangzhou, only the head of the family and the favored concubine can take a wooden barrel bath every day.
The joyful atmosphere of the tour group was weakened for the first time in the wood factory: the thick logs were cut into square columns by the big iron toothed wheel amidst the huge screaming sound. The newcomers who saw this scene were terrified Covering their ears, the whole team began to hide back.

The subsequent shredder also made the newcomers addicted to watching horror movies. Fortunately, most of the people who operated the machine were "inmates" who had disappeared in Moyunguan before. Settle down—"Friends in the House" can do this job, and I can probably do it too.
The newcomers in the tour group spent a morning to adapt to the new environment, and they have an afternoon vacation. After that, everyone will be assigned to various jobs one after another according to the files they made during the Moyunguan period. among.

Yang Er didn't have to wait for the assignment, because he found a job later in the day - the newcomers in the school district didn't find out that there was a great man hidden around him until Yang Er left, so good that the master of the giant spirit god came to the door in person Great man please.

In the evening, Yang Er, who was leaning on the wooden steps in front of the door and listening to his roommate's bragging while touching his bulging belly, saw the figure slowly approaching in the distance for the first time.

The thief boy's crisis instinct told Yang Er that the visitor was not kind.He retreated into the room and looked out through the window. After a while, the sweaty thief was sure that the abbot was coming for him—he was hiding next to the urinal at the back door, and he clearly heard the abbot asking questions at the door. his voice.

Waiting patiently until the sound of heavy footsteps that only the abbot could step on came from the wooden steps at the door of the house, Yang Er rolled like a lazy donkey, rolled out of the back door silently, and slid into the bottom of the house on stilts.

Using all fours underneath, he cleverly crawled back to the main entrance in the opposite direction. On the way, he heard heavy footsteps coming from above his head; now he no longer hesitated, rolled out from under the main entrance silently, and planned to run away to spend the night in other dormitories after speaking. First.

The next moment, the little thief was grabbed by the neck of a giant standing on the wooden steps of the door, who had been waiting impatiently. Yang Er was stunned by the laughter, and turned his head vigorously, and then he saw A roommate stomping around the house.
As the sun sets, gulls and herons pass by the water surface of the Taijiang River, splashing a piece of gold. In the fiery red setting sun, two figures, one big and one small, gradually recede, and a few words of begging for forgiveness float from time to time in the sea breeze:
"Ouch, the neck, the neck can't bear it anymore!"

"Monkey boy, are you still running?"

"Don't dare, Abbot, Yang Er will never dare again, and he will die if he dies."

(End of this chapter)